Brought up and educated in Brazzaville, The Congo, by missionaries. A war has broken out... Everything is destroyed, the town devastated, there is nothing to be found anywhere. However with courage the sisters go back to work, open the nursery and primary schools without any materials. They send out an SOS to ex-pupils of which I am one. Since that time I am running around the shops with my limited means of a retired person. Paints, folding books, etc. etc.... meetings with the people who will carry my packages to Brazza. And in return I receive letters and drawings from little children thanking me and calling me godmother and sometimes mother, this is happiness !!!

What makes me happy is the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

What makes me happy is to have a cat.

What makes me happy is when my neighbour kindly offers me « tourtisseaux » to thank me for a small favour.

What makes me happy is to dream and imagine things about battles and love.

What makes me happy is that when I walk in the street, my steps are exactly as long as the bands on the crosswalk. I feel like I'm in harmony with my environment

What makes me happy is the existence of people on this earth who ask me what makes me happy.

What makes me happy, it is in the morning when I wake up in my lover's arms and he kisses me lovingly

What makes me happy is reading every little bit of joy in my children's eyes.

What makes me happy is reading or writing to my loved ones. It's knowing that I am there for them and that they're there for me.

Smelling the scent of my children makes me happy.

What makes me happy is seeing my best friend again after almost two years apart.

What makes me happy is to be desired.

A particular moment in the summer of 2002 really made me happy. My father and I went fishing to the little river going near my childhood's village, in rocky canyons. He fishes with the hand since he was a little boy and this year I was also successful when I got a fish with my hand. The atmosphere and this moment of complicity both made me reach heaven.

It's my children that make me happy : my son Samuel, who is 1, and my daughter Mélissa-Jade, who is 14, they are the most precious things I have on Earth.

What makes me happy is when the people in the metro don't look just at their feet but at each other, and smile.

What makes me happy is that I have found a bigger appartment that mine for the same price in the region where I am moving (a region where real estate is normally more expensive than in my region).

What makes me happy is seeing all the cherry trees blooming in Japan, and telling myself that nothing is more beautiful and nothing pleases us more than this langourous pink…

What makes me happy every day, it is to see black slaves'sons and daughters appointed to fairly important positions, in a country where there were schools for Whites and schools for Blacks, buses for Whites and buses for Blacks, just very few decades ago.

When he holds me in his arms, my head goes “pssshit.”

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

My relationship makes me very happy. I really have the impression that I create that every day. What allowed me to live this relationship, was when I started to respect myself and to listen to myself. Of course the other person senses that and naturally comes to you without effort. Afterwards the secret is not to tie the net, not to become a living prison, but on the contrary to open up the space with kind attention and love. Programme for a beautiful relationship: - Respect it – Listen to oneself (and the other too !) – Encourage light thoughts towards the other – Continue as if you were alone - Love the other person tenderly - Have fun together.

What makes me happy is a genuine and simple friendship.

To take the time to eat in a fine restaurant in Marseille and to savour the different meals…

What makes me happy is that it's raining today instead of a day when the weather's nice.

The happiest day of my live was when I left the hole I was hidden in for a month during the war in Rwanda. That day, the sun shone like it will no longer and the breeze was a caress that no man has ever given me. It was June 21, 1994 around 3 :00 p.m. I was 14.

What makes me happy is the existence of people on this earth who ask me what makes me happy.

A moment of happiness: the kiss from this little girl who thanked me for having cured her mommy. What made me happy yesterday was passing the evening with the man I love, dancing all night with him and showing him that his black skin and my white skin show at the same time both contrast and harmony.

What makes me happy, it is in the morning when I wake up in my lover's arms and he kisses me lovingly

Happiness is in my nature, I always say that the sun is shining in my head. What makes me happy is loving life and every day there's always the same intensity inside me.

Hearing that a friend is expecting a baby makes me happy.

What warms my heart and makes me happy is when nothing relents, seeing that my ideas come back stronger and more definite.

What makes me happy is living the life I've always wanted to live.

For me, it's the sea that makes me happy!!! When I see it or just even think about it I feel good deep inside. It might be quite trivial but the blue ocean makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to be loved by the man of my life, a loving Canadian that fate put on my way.

What makes me happy is finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.

The idea of finding the love of my life makes me happy.

What makes me happy is getting a love letter meant for someone else... and getting a love letter really meant for me!

What makes me happy is to create as many problems as possible.

What makes me happy is wheever I go beach and watch the clouds.

It's when a simple look is enough.

One evening placed on his lower back, I thought about his little round body and I realized how happy I was to be a Daddy.

What made me happy was when I could walk again for the first time after my operation, when I had been paralyzed.

The smile of a child after an X-ray treatment… A baby holding out his hand… All that makes me happy!!

What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

What makes me happy is sharing my newspaper with a neighbor on the metro who reads it over my shoulder.

What makes me the happiest is to see the people I love happy.

What makes me happy is that everybody is fine.

What makes me happy is the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

Life and loving others makes me happy.

All my travels.

What makes me happy is little everyday moments like for example : sitting on the edge of a lake and contemplating nature, horsebackriding in the woods, among other examples.

My greatest happiness has been the birth of my two children! One boy one girl:

What made me happy was to find out that I was pregnant with the child of the man of my life.

What makes me happy is feeling so small in front of a stormy ocean, smelling the spray on my face : I simply feel content, and I realize the futility of all my little everyday worries.

What makes me happy is to be on holiday.

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and think that I'm still there despite the past difficulties.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

What makes me happy ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

What makes me happy is listening to Metallica while petting a kitten.

What make me happy are the moments when my son has a great time playing basketball, and flawlessly.

What makes me happy is seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.

What makes me happy is seeing my daughters happy and in good health

My happiness is complete when I let the metro pass to keep kissing my love on the latform...telling myself that I'll take it maybe the next day or the day after that.

Freedom makes me feel happy.

It's snowing. I didn't drink today (well… yeah, a little). I'm trying to answer your question… happiness ? For me this intense, deep emotion that moves me : I feel that I'm going to go away… I won't tremble anymore… live, that's all. Happiness is knowing that you can go away, happiness is the smile of someone who doesn't know that I'm an alcoholic. Happiness… is thinking that I'm normal. Happiness : being right, loyal, and honest.

What makes me happy is life... the simplicity of people... their joy of living and the smiles that surround me... I want to be happy with them like with myself... I want to live in the moment without ever forgetting the past that made me grow up so well.

When something wonderful appears in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams which become reality with the impression that it's life which is organizing everything, lucid dreams.

The idea of free time makes me happy. Let me explain: life is such that we are always doing something, stressed, running around, always going faster... So, to programme some free time, time to do nothing, is an idea that gives me a real sense of happiness.

What makes me happy are those lives I dream of and those dreams I live in.

What makes me happy is to believe in life, to believe in me.

What makes me happy ? To be a granny, nothing is more beautiful than to see your family grow larger and be able to play the doting mother again. It makes you feel young again.

What does make me happy is to watch the waves lapping on the fine sand

What makes me happy is seeing middle aged couples still walking together hand in hand.